Lacing-tip.



Nb. 722,902. PATBTED m2121903. P. RICHARDSON.

LACING TIP.

'APPLICATION FILED IAN. 31, 1902.

No MODEL.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK RICHARDSON, OF PROVIDENCE, lRHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR OFONE-THIRD TO MILES H. RAY,' OF`EAST PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

LACiNG-TIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 722,902, dated March 17,1903.

Application led January 31, 1902. Serial No. 92,074. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: i l

Be it known that I, FREDERICK RICHARD SON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State ofRhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lacing-Tips,of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in the construction ofthe metal tips usually secured to the ends of shoe and other laces.

Lacing-tips are usually formed by bending a thin plate of sheet metalaround the ends of the lace, thereby forming the usually fiat lace intoa round end which can be readily inserted into the eyelets.

The object of this invention is to secure the sheet-metal tip to thelace; and it consists in the peculiar and novel construction whereby aportion of the sheet met-al of the tip is forced inward from theopposite sides.4

to lock the same to the lace at points offset to one side and notopposite to each other.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the blank ofsheet metal from which thetip is bent up. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the lace placed on theblank of sheet metal ready to be bent into the tip. Fig. 3 is a sideView of the lace with the bent-up tip. Fig. 4. is a side view of thelace provided with the crimped tip. Fig. 5 is a sectional View of thelace provided with the crimped tip, showing the crimps eX- tending intothe lace staggered so as to compress the lace between the sides of thecrimps. In the drawings, a indicates the blank of sheet metal of whichthe tip is formed; b, the lace; c, the bent-up tip, and d d the crimps.

The tip is formed by bending a sheet-metalblank around the lacing in anysuit-able Inanner. The crimping of the metal tip is then done by tworeciprocating dies sliding parallel to each other and actingsimultaneously on the two opposite sides of the tip to force 'the metalinward to clamp the lacing fabric between the sides of the two oppositecrimps. The crimps are oiset, so that the lacing is not compressedbetween the inner edges of two crimps, because in such a construction astrain on the lacing tends to separate the crimps and open the tip,while by offsetting the crimps the strain of the lace is resisted by thesides of the crimps and does not tend to open the tip. y

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentv1. In a lacing-tip, the combination with a bent-upsheet-metal tip, of crimps formed in the sheet-metal tip, the planes ofwhich are odset to pass by each other to clamp the material of thelacing, as described.

2. In a lacing-tip, the combination with a sheet-metal tip formed aroundthe lace, of crimps formed in the opposite sides of the metal tip, theplanes of which are offset to pass by each other, as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK RICHARDSON.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH A. MILLER, J r., BELLE SIMMs WEBSTER..

